You would be left with £100,000 to pass on, and the payments could be deferred meaning you don’t have to move out, but the money will be coming from your house, if you’re lucky enough to own one valuable enough.

After a media storm over what became known as a “dementia tax”, they back-tracked a bit, saying there will be a cap on the costs before the council steps in so richer people don’t have to pay more.

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Oh – and if you’re able to spare the money – you will also be given the right to time off work to care for someone full time.

The DUP’s position is less clear. They want to introduce the recommendations given in a report into social care conducted last year , but these do not include house sales among its 14 recommendations.

Housing

Along with existing plans to ban letting agent fees for tenants and build more new homes, the Conservatives are promising to introduce a new “homelessness reduction taskforce” whose focus will be on prevention and affordable housing.

There are also plans to crack down on unfair practises in leasehold, such as escalating ground rents and improve protections for those who rent – such as increasing security for good tenants and encouraging landlords to offer longer tenancies as standard.

The DUP don’t mention housing in their manifesto.

Bills

Theresa May has promised a cap on energy prices but will the DUP agree? (Image: Free editorial use)

The Conservatives are looking at the bills people are paying and trying to find ways of helping.

First, they plan to cap energy prices, although they’re light on detail on how they’d do this.

The DUP wants to keep bills low too - but only promises to “support efforts to better control energy bills” - rather than proposing a cap.

Debts

Some good news here - with the Conservative manifesto promising to adopt a “Breathing Space” scheme, with the right safeguards to prevent abuse, so that someone in serious problem debt may apply for legal protection from further interest, charges and enforcement action for a period of up to six weeks.

They also promise that, where appropriate, they will be offered a statutory repayment plan to help them pay back their debts in a manageable way. This will give eligible debtors time to seek advice and assistance to apply for a sustainable solution to their debt.

The DUP doesn’t mention personal debts.

School meals

And finally... No more free school lunches

As well as threatening people’s home in old age, making pensions less generous and being suspiciously quiet about National Insurance, the Conservative Manifesto are taking away free school meals from millions of children.

If elected, the Tory party will make school lunches means tested and only available to some. To compensate, they plan to offer primary school children a free breakfast instead – to the value of 7p a child, a day.

The DUP might fight them on this though, if they consider school lunches “important universal benefits”.